Christophe Rhodes wrote:
> David Morse <dm@...> writes:
>
>
>>I'm starting to think the compiler's a little TOO worried about
>>runtime allocation of alien-value structures. Nobody wants a compiler
>>warning for every time a call to "list" forces a cons cell to be
>>allocated ... thus nobody wants this warning either:
>
>
> Maybe. On the other hand, I suspect that heap allocation of aliens is
> orders of magnitude more expensive than heap allocation of lists --
> particularly since in the general case stack allocation of aliens is
> possible, which is not true for allocation of lists.
>
> At least this way round, when people complain about several missing
> orders of magnitude of alien performance, we can point to the compiler
> notes that have resulted from their compilation. :-)
Let us agree to disagree.
Note: I'd feel a lot better about the warning message if it were 1-2
lines, instead of an entire screenful. As it is, it makes it hard to
find other, more important warnings, because it prints 30 lines of
funkily indented jargon.

Nikodemus Siivola <tsiivola@...> writes:
> On Tue, 9 Nov 2004, John Morrison wrote:
>
>> Google pointed me at this 2 year old discussion:
>>
>> http://www.geocrawler.com/mail/msg.php3?msg_id=7623991
>>
>> I could not find a bug with that number in the sf.net page.
>
> Christophe already tackled the actual issue, but a note for all and
> sundry listening in on this:
>
> Please, do not use the Sourceforge SBCL bugtracker.
I'm pretty sure it's within the powers of a project admin to turn it
off. <footles> -- docs here:
https://sourceforge.net/docman/display_doc.php?docid=14041&group_id=1#tracker
Might be an idea.
Cheers,
mwh
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On Tue, 9 Nov 2004, John Morrison wrote:
> Google pointed me at this 2 year old discussion:
>
> http://www.geocrawler.com/mail/msg.php3?msg_id=7623991
>
> I could not find a bug with that number in the sf.net page.
Christophe already tackled the actual issue, but a note for all and sundry
listening in on this:
Please, do not use the Sourceforge SBCL bugtracker.
The preferred archival method for bugs is the BUGS file in the
distribution & cvs (where #133 refers to), and the preferred reporting
method is either this list or sbcl-devel.
Cheers,
-- Nikodemus Schemer: "Buddha is small, clean, and serious."
Lispnik: "Buddha is big, has hairy armpits, and laughs."